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. INTERIOR. WALL FINISH.

No. 361,686. Patented Apr 26, 1887.

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0. L. GARDNER.

, INTERIOR WALL FINISH.

No.361.686. PatentedA r. 26,1887.

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OLIVER L. GARDNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW' YORK, ASS IGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOALFRED VAN DERVVERKEN, OF SAME PLACE.

INTERIOR WALL FINISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,686, dated April26, 1887.

Application filed July 22, 1886. Serial No. 208,777. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OLIVER L. GARDNER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Interior Wall Finish, of which the following isaspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanyingdrawings.

Thisinvention relates to the ornamentation or construction of walls,ceilings, 850.; and the novelty consists in the construction.arrangement, and adaptation of parts, as willbe more fully hereinafterset forth, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

The material used in carrying out the invention isknown as strawlumber,and comprises the article covered by Reissue Patent No. 10,387, ofl883,which patent I with others own and control. It consists of a boardor sheet of homogeneous material formed of several sheets of papercemented and united by heat and pressure. With suitable sheets. of thisarticle I propose to form the walls and ceilings of buildings, halls,and dwellings, or to dec0- rate walls already formed in such places. The

lumber may be kept in stock and in colors to imitate oak, cherry,walnut, maple, mahogany, .&c. I design to render it possible at shortnotice to finish a room in either of those or of other colors to suitdifferenttastes.

By the employment of my invention a dining-room may in a short time befinished in cherry or other desired wood imitation. The material willnot shrink, does not need seasoning, and is without moisture,- hence,when it is once in position, itis ready for-immediate use.

I finish my walls in panels. Out of a proper base-plate I cut a formsmaller than the basepanel. Out of the base-panel I cut a sectionsmaller than the cap-panel. I apply the base panel or band to thebase-plate and the cappanel to the base-panel in any suitable andapproved manner. 1

The piece cut out of the base-plate will serve as the cap-panel, and thepiece cut out of the base-panel will serve with a separate and smallerseries.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section 'taken through awall partially Fig. 4 repreview taken on the line 00 0c of Fig. 4. Fig.6

represents a detail perspective view of a portion of a panel constructedin accordance with my invention.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference denotesimilar parts, A

designates the base upon which the panels proper are secured, said baseconsisting of a series of sheets of paper cemented together to form asheet or board of the required thickness.

a designates cutaway-portions of the base, to the side edges of which,upon the outer surface of the base, is cemented a base-panel, (E, of thematerial of which the base is formed, and similarly cut away, as at a.

a designates the outer finishing member of the panel, and is cemented tothe outer surface of the band a.

a The outer side edges of the parts a a may have any desiredconfiguration of outline, or

said members may be of any. desired thickness, as desired.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 I have shown the base A as secured upon the outersurface of the wall covered by lat-h and plaster, and have in saidfigures further shown different numbers of finish-as, for instance, thecornice, frieze, and picture-rail at the top of the wall, as well asthechair-rail, base, and sub-base at its hottom,formed of material similarin construction to that of which the panel A is formed.

The panel a may be hand-painted, as indi' cated, and those panels may beso secured as to be removable, allowing occupying parties to take theirhandiwork with them from one ICC hand-carving. The general ornamentationmay be readily changed by new combinations of colors, bronzing,bnrnishing, and metallic 1mitations. f

I am aware that itis not new to make pasteboard with various figures anddesigns in relief by forcing one face of the pasteboard in and the otherface out. In another application filed by me on the 22d day of July,1886, Serial No. 208,778, I have claimed a homogeneous board composed ofseveral sheets of paper treated with an adhesive substance, the wholeunited by heat and pressure, and having one or both of its facesimpressed or embossed with figures formed in the process of r 5manufacture. What I claim as new is A Wall or ceiling decorated by theapplication directly to the studding or joists ofstrawboard lumberembossed on the exposed sur- 2o face, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

O. L. GARDNER. Witnesses:

A. VAN DERWERKEN, J 0s. R. EDsoN.

